"The academic performance." Who cares. The academic performance of a child is a very poor indicator of how much they learn. This is just part of the problem with an educational system relying on unreal measurements of success and failure. If you're good at testing you will do well. If not, no. Neither are any indication of the intelligence and learning of the child. The American hostility to 'book learning' and the popular conception that college is useless in the 'real world' have a great deal to do with the terrible state of education here along with the tendency to divert our tax monies away from the people and into the elites' coffers.
"The academic performance." Who cares. The academic performance of a child is a very poor indicator of how much they learn. This is just part of the problem with an educational system relying on unreal measurements of success and failure. If you're good at testing you will do well. If not, no. Neither are any indication of the intelligence and learning of the child. The American hostility to 'book learning' and the popular conception that college is useless in the 'real world' have a great deal to do with the terrible state of education here along with the tendency to divert our tax monies away from the people and into the elites' coffers.